Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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